Just...why? Why would you do that to your child? At least Osiris is a real name, and the poor kid will be able to go by that when he's older.

I dunno .. Fire isn't much different than Stormy, Sunny, Misty, Blade, River, Rock, Forrest or any other object name.

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... I was surprised by ransom for a girl it sounds like a boys name to me.

Whether it's a girl's name or a boy's name, it sounds to me like a demand for money or bad things will happen.

I can see a boy holding a stack of her books by her locker while she gets her coat on and having the Principal come up and say "What are you doing?" "Oh, gee Mr. P. I'm just holding onto these books for Ransom." Followed by the shocked young man being dragged down to the security officer's office accused of 'demanding money for the return of the girl's books!'

I think that any "normal" name has the chance of being misspelled or mispronounced as well so that criteria just doesn't count for me. Just ask the Sara's/Sarah's and Mary's/Marie's whose names have that happen.

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"I feel sarcasm is the lowest form of wit." "It is so low, in fact, that Miss Manners feels sure you would not want to resort to it yourself, even in your own defense. We do not believe in retaliatory rudeness." Judith Martin

My mom spent a year in Wales when she went to university and absolutely loved her landlord and landlady, so much so that she planned to give a Welsh name to one of her kids. Therefore, I came very close to being named Myfanwy. And while I think this is a very beautiful name with a pretty sound (and for a short period of teenage romanticism I resented my mom for not following through), that only goes for when it's pronounced correctly, which is not something I think would happen here where I grew up and live.